From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 13:51:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76077106566C for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:51:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1-6.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ECA8FC08 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7NDosOr093198; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:50:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <4E53B03F.7090109@sentex.net> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:50:55 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Eighner References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:51:03 -0000 On 8/21/2011 12:34 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > > Since uart in 8.x will not support my PCI 3com hardware modem (as FreeBSD > sio has since 4.x) and my PR is gathering dust, before I buy any more > coaster sets from osdisc.com, it behooves to ask if there are any dialup > modems that 8.x uart actually supports for ppp on demand? A number of people have asked a number of times for you to provide details as to what exactly does not work given that a number of people use the same 3com modem you claim is totally broken. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-May/062731.html I have the following modem is a few dozen locations that works just fine on RELENG_7 and RELENG_8 using uart. uart2@pci0:0:14:0: class=0x070002 card=0x00d312b9 chip=0x100812b9 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = '3COM Corp, Modem Division (Formerly US Robotics)' device = 'USR5610B (0005610-02) 56K Performance Pro Modem (PCI Internal) (USR5610B)' class = simple comms subclass = UART bar [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xe500, size 8, enabled cap 01[dc] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D2 D3 current D0 # cu -l /dev/cuau2 Connected ati3 U.S. Robotics 56K FAX INT V5.22.91 OK ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/